Stool-seat



To' all whom it may concern.:

y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. DUNLAP, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 292,211,` dated January 1884.

Application filed September 29, 1883. (No model.)

Be it known that I, JOHN S. DUNLAP, of

Peoria, in the county of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Stool- Seat; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed 4drawings, making a part of this specification, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts, and in which- Figure l represents a vertical section of the invention through the center; Fig. 2, a side elevation with part of ring broken away; Figs. 3, 4, 5, seetionsof modifications, Figs. 6, 7, and 8, plans of modied forms.

' The object of this invention is the construction of means which, while serving to secure easily and strongly the upholstering upon a stool or similar article of furniture, forms also an ornamental binding for the same.

- In the drawings, Ais the foundation-board, upon which the upholstering islaid, and which' is, in the stool shown, lmade circular in form, but having its edge chamfered, as shown in Fig. l.

Dis the stuffing of the seat, and B is the covering of the same.

C is a metal ring, made to fit about the board A, and having its upper diameter slightly shorter than its lower one. This ring C, I usually make of east metal plated, japanned, or otherwise made ornamental in appearance.

' In forming the seat of this stool the stuffing or cushionis first secured upon the board A, the coveringY B cut the right shape and size and put on over the same. The ring C is then pressed down over the edge of the covering and down the side of the board A until the upper edge of the ringO enters the groove A',y made in the side of saidv board A, as shown in Eig. 2. The ringc'is made thin and slightly smaller than the board A, so that it could only be impressed down past the upper edge of the board A and into its groove A by the application of some little force and by the elasticity of saidr ring C. By this means, when the ring is once pressed home, it retains itself in place without other fastening. This downward impressing of the ring'C serves to tighten v and pull smoothly over the stool the covering B, which is gripped by the upper edge of said ring, pulled downward and held in the groove A as the said upper edge of the ring C Asprings therein. The said covering fabric B may be tacked about the side of the board A, if desired; but I find that the ring alone is able to hold the upholstering in place.

I sometimes stitch a narrow strip of burlap or otherthick fabric upon the edge of the covering B, to give the ring C better hold upon the same; but if the board A is well seasoned such a strip, B, is unnecessary.

`What I claim as myinvention is as follows, t0 Wit:

`As a seat for a stool or similar article of furniture, the circular foundation-board A, having its edge chamfered and provided with the groove A', as shown and described, in combination with a covering, B, of fabric or similar material, and the thin metal ring O, contracted in diameter at its upper edge, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing invention I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of September, 1883.

JOHN S. DUNLAP. 

